By the way, I saw the movie again, and I agree that Katy sang "Not Like the Movies" beautifully, wherever it may have been (LA, it seems). I wonder why my wife and I both (incorrectly) remembered her having a hard time with it when we saw the movie the first time?

Sorry, I fucked up the end of that sentence. They certainly censored the movie and for the most part made it very Disney-friendly and I didn't like that. Also, they made the sound in the movie slightly high-pitched (you can definitely hear this when they show the performances of songs) and it made Katy sound like an overly cheerful 5-year-old when she talked... a little thing but it got on my nerves.

Are you saying that they changed the pitch of her singing and speaking? Strange.

Yes, the overall pitch of the movie is higher. Whether it was done on purpose or not I'm not sure but it sometimes just happens.

Maybe they sped certain scenes up, and that has the side effect of making her voice higher pitched?

Another thing that struck me seeing the movie a 2nd time is that when they showed pictures of Katy when she was 17, she looked like a different person, but when she was 18, she looked exactly the same as she does now. I wonder if her look really changed that much in 1 year, of if they specifically looked for pictures where she looked either different or the same, depending on the context.

Another thing that struck me seeing the movie a 2nd time is that when they showed pictures of Katy when she was 17, she looked like a different person, but when she was 18, she looked exactly the same as she does now. I wonder if her look really changed that much in 1 year, of if they specifically looked for pictures where she looked either different or the same, depending on the context.

Maybe someone like Tara could answer this better, but that was right around the time she moved to LA, and with that comes huge change. Could be relevant, or maybe not. *cue informational post by more seasoned Katycat*

I have found this forum looking precisely for this information. You are such detectives!

After watching the film a few times I realised that when she is crying backstage Tam gives her the necklace from Russell and says that she was meant to have lost it after he gave it to her for her birthday. That couldn't have happened in Brazil, since the Brazil gig was in September, so she still would not even have the present then. So it makes sense that the backstage scenes were filmed on the day right after her birthday!

Anyway, apologies if it's not OK to resurrect an old thread, but I was excited to see others go over it with a fine tooth comb too, hehe.